Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Between Wednesday and Saturday of last week, Hirano Aya took a trip to Phu Ket, Thailand, for some photo sessions.

She is certainly spending more time on her work outside of anime, and people have noted that she is not slated to appear in any of the new fall shows. But she has leading roles in three continuing shows: Fairy Tail, Nurarihyon no Mago, and Jewelpet Tinkle. Unfortunately, those are not shows I enjoy enough to watch myself, however well she may perform.

She even had nail art applied to her toes, in preparation for the swimsuit photo sessions. Some anti-Aya Japanese otaku have gleefully discerned a hair or two in the photo:

Here are a couple of shots of Aya doing a kind of work she is doing a lot of these days: appearing on TV variety and talk shows. She is talking about unusual things that have happened in her career. From the on-screen titles, she seems to be talking about being shone on by photo lights brighter than the sun, and about how dark smoke started to come out of her head.

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Nili
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I saw the exerpt from the show on Youtube, but it has been removed due to copyright (Found it there: http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/?q=%CA%BF%CC%EE%B0%BD).And from what I understood, she talked about a photoshoot when it was cold outside and there were this very very bright lights which shone on her.A staff member told her that the lights could be very hot but she shouldn't mind and continue the photoshoot.After a while there was smoke coming from her head because of the spotlights, someone saw it and pushed her head down in the snow so that her hair couldn't catch fire.

Maybe you find the exerpt on other video services but I haven't searched for it.

Hashihime

The "Hashihime" or "Bridge Princesses," are characters in the novel The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari 源氏物語）. They are daughters of a disgraced prince, living alone with him in a small house at Uji, outside Kyoto. They are important characters in the last ten chapters of the novel.

The Genji can be considered the first real novel in the history of the world. It was written around 1000 AD by a Japanese court lady known as Lady Murasaki, or Murasaki Shikibu.

I think contemporary Japanese literature, including anime and manga, continues to preserve aspects of the Genji, among them sensitive psychological observation, a general passion for romance, and romantic interest in young girls. The main hero of the thousand-page novel, Prince Genji, had a number of present and former girlfriends living in his palace, and basically abducted his principal wife Murasaki when she was ten, marrying her when she was around 15.

notes

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